The Front Room

Name: The Front Room
Genre: Thriller, Horror
Released: September 6, 2024
Rating: 49

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A24 | Release Date: September 6, 2024 | R

Summary: Everything goes to hell for newly-pregnant Belinda (Brandy) after her mother-in-law (Kathryn Hunter) moves in. As the diabolical guest tries to get her claws on the child, Belinda must draw the line somewhere.

Genre(s): Thriller, Horror

Rating: R

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Slashfilm Bill Bria

Sep 5, 2024

This is very likely going to be a crowd pleasing movie, one to hoot and holler about. Beneath all that hooting and hollering, though, lies a psychologically rich tale that I believe will reward multiple viewings. Read full review

Richard Whittaker

Sep 5, 2024

What makes The Front Room universal is that it’s ultimately about power, about who runs the house. Read full review

Collider Jeff Ewing

Sep 5, 2024

Altogether, it's a solid dark comedy in the trappings of a psychological horror film. Read full review

Manohla Dargis

Sep 5, 2024

The Front Room has its virtues, including the funereal production design, with its forlorn rooms and faded wallpaper. Yet from its goo to boos, the whole enterprise is so familiar and at times rote that it feels as though Sam and Max Eggers haven’t so much directed the movie as reverse-engineered it. Read full review

IndieWire Alison Foreman

Sep 5, 2024

Overwrought with visual style but relentlessly one-note, The Front Room is willfully annoying and dubious in its purpose. Read full review

Casey Epstein-Gross

Sep 13, 2024

There is so much that can be mined from the terrifying experience of aging, but The Front Room is decidedly uninterested in everything that wellspring of tragedy has to offer—save for incontinence, and that is something (perhaps the only thing) it is very, very interested in. Read full review

G. Allen Johnson

Sep 5, 2024

The Front Room becomes an exercise in psychological torture porn; it’s a movie you endure rather than enjoy. Read full review

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